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Chicago examiner vol vi no 77 a m friday march 20 1908 12 pages price one cent gg^j&_g ] bryan dodges the sullivan issue in his speech clinches the burial of hatchet by declaring he has no enemies 10,000 hearthe admission nearly apologizing for his sur render nebraskan scores johnson's supporters aims shafts at editors entertained on 48th birthday he declares that advertis ing has helped him william j bryan last uight ratified the bargain he made | tuesday with roger c sulli van he tacitly admitted his sur render to the democratic national com mitteeman the admission was made before 10 000 people who gathered to hear his big speech at the seventh regiment armory and m that throng there were very few who did not understand that mr bryan had stopped his right on sullivan m order to get instructed flelegates from Illinois to the denver convention the proof the sullivan men required mr bryan to make that he would keep his part of the peace compact made tuesday , was that he should owb his attacks upon his ancient foe and that was the exact ' proof he gave though he talked what he â– ailed personal polities for ten minutes at the beginning of his speech there was not one word m what he said that could be ronslrued to have a harsh meaning to mr sullivan's ear sullivan men satisfied there were scores of sullivan's ardent supporters m the crowd they all agreed when mr bryan had finished that he had made good upon what they understood the peace pact to be what mr bryan did m talking personal politics was to undertake in a mild way to justify his action m coming to sullivan's terms if what he said should be considered m its best light if the worst construction should be put upon his language it might almost be c.-.llei an apology for past un compromising utterances concerning the democratic state boss what gave especial point to the mildness or even the brotherliuess of his attitude toward sullivan was his direct and vigor ous attack upon certain eastern newspapers that have been discouraging his ambition and urging the nomination of governor johnson of minnesota toward the editors of those papers he used the strong and bitter language ho once was m the habit of using toward suliivan which went to show he had not lost his vocabulary and ; that his power or delivery had not grown weak the following is what he said of personal politics is ready to serve party ' i do not know what the denver eon ten lion may do but i know it ought to do bat the democrats of the nation ask it to do i have never assumed to decide that i am the most available man for the residential nomination m the nation all ) can say is that after all i have received from he part il has a right to command roe whenever it thinks i can serve it i believe that it is democratic to say that all the power the convention will have is derived from the people within the party all i have ever suggested is that the voters of the party and not the bosses should de lermine what the platform shall be and who the candidate shall be i respect the opinion of each individual of the party i respect that opinion no less if the individual happens to be the editor of a newspaper i even have some re - spect fc i the opinion of editors who wn'.e wiiat some one else tells them to wrilc but 1 insist that an editor or au owner of n newspaper is no more thau an individual thinks editors shouldn't coerce if an editor expresses an opinion it docs not give that opinion any more force because it is expressed n type an editor &Â«* " e riÂ»m to coerce public opinion th:u has the humblest private m the ranks of the paily it is rfj n t that editors should propose but the rank and tile must dispose l have refused so tar as i am con cerned to agree that the democratic presi dential candidate shall be made m the back olik-r of a few newspapers the editor who says that one man cannot be elected this year and that another can furnishes no bond to make good these men who are lolling us now what the party must do to be saved tire the s;:me who saved us o completely four years ago i insist that this year ihe rank and hie of the demo cratic parly shall say what the platform shall ik and who the standard-bearer shall be next mr bryan came to what might be bryanisks from mis armory talk m Chicago last night i have never assumed to de cide that i am the most available man m the nation for the nomination the voters o the party and not the bosses should determine who the candidate shall be i have refused to agree that the candidate should be made m the back offices of a few newspapers it is democratic to instruct delegates to the denver conven tion and to select men to carry out the instructions who want them carried out i have never had a personal difference with a democrat so far as i know i have not a per sonal enemy m the united states i have never asked a man i supported what he thought of me that did not matter if i have wronged any one i did it unintentionally and i will apologize if convinced i have wronged him william j v bryak at the sev enth regiment armory last night editor of fashionable new york society paper held on fraud charge franklin lawrence publisher of so ciety accused of defrauding so licitor of 1,000 given as security new york march 19 franklin law rence editor of society a weekly devoted to the doings of fashionable folk in which many women prominent in the four hun dred are stockholders wag locked up to night charged with obtaining si 000 by fraud among those who are reported to have purchased stock in the magazine at sioo a share are mrs stuyvesant fish mrs paul m morton mrs clnrence h mackay mrs theodore staonts and miss dollle lynch of lakewood the plan adopted by lawrence accord ing to the story told to-night was to send a solicitor to the home or society hostesses before a function of any kind and ex plain that the paper desired to treat it in accordance with the wishes of those in terested then a few shares of stock would be sold mrs shonts shortly before the marriage of her daughter to the due de chaulnes purchased two shares at 100 each the lakewood section of society contained a tery beautiful portrait of miss shonts on its first page the arrest was made on the complaint of harry b harris who was engaged in october as an advertising solicitor and put up a cash security of 1,000 he says he afterward worked ou commission to increase the circulatiou and says he ob tained only 17.50 and was unable to get any more money or recover his 1,(k)0 lawrence was also charged with violating the penal code m connection with rnnniug a corporation rockefeller dodges carnegie's challenge maybe i'll play him again is the 3est he will say augusta ga march 19-.lohn d rockefeller has so far treated with silence andrew carnegie's open challenge to play another game of golf and at the same time bury the hatchet mr uockcfcllcr knows w4iat mr carnegie has had to say he has read the statement from washington m the public prints but he is religiously mum as to iiis intentions the only state ment he has made being mr carnegie plays a good game of golf asked if he would invite mr carnegie to paly a game if he should have an opportunity to do so mr itockefeller said maybe and then he returned vigorously to a game be was plaviug with himself on the country ciub links n y democrats refuse to indorse w j bryan xew york march 19 the democratic st.iie committee m a meeting to-day m the bote victoria directed that an iinin btructed delegation from this state bo sent to the national convention m denver next juiy it also set the date for the state convention m which the delegates will be selected as april 11 and designated carnegie hail as the convention place all the bryan courage seemed to have faded when tin 1 meeting was called to order and only the feeble voice of committeeman charles p williams of lyons was raised m behalf of the nebraska king's wrath stops abruzzi-elkins announcement italy's ruler opposes marriage of truant duke to an american girl love not money match suitor will forfeit court posi tion by wedding says member of embassy washi ngtox march 19 the delay m announcing the engagement of miss kath erine elkins and the duke of abrnzzl is ! entirely due to the violent opposition of the king of italy cousin of the duke this fact became known from a member | of the italian embassy to-night it was ' said that the duke although on leave of absence from his vessel practically is a j truant as he came here m opposition to > the wishes of the king it is declared that senator and mrs elkins the dukej and ail others regard the marriage highly ' but there is said to be bitter disapproval | from italy each day sees a luncheon and each night a dinner where the health of the young couple is toasted but no formal announce ment of the engagement is forthcoming the reason for this according to the au thority quoted before is the violent antag onism of the king of italy and the hope that he may be won over duke not fortune hunter that the duke is seeking money is per i fectly absurd he is very wealthy in his j own right and if he does marry katherlne ! elkins it will be for love not for money ! the duke will have absolutely no post j tion in the italian court there is not ! much truth in the story that the king ! will confer an order of nobility ou senator elkins and thus elevate his daughter to the peerage kings are not bestowing titles on citizens of republics they have not enough titles to go round among their own loyal subjects the romantic cud of the story is the hard fight the duke has made for miss elkins hand he has followed her from continent to continent braved the dls pleasure of his king it is a real romance and not at al like other international matches have been they met on auto tour vbat is said to be the real story of the romance is this while m turin several summers ago automobiling iucognito to which sport the duke is passionately devoted he was in troduced to the elkins party who were j touring italy m an automobile the at | traction between the duke and miss elkins was immediate and all the more surpris ing to their friends because both had heretofore eschewed the society of the other sex but a glorious idle rambling summer m sunny italy long spins m the : moonlight adequately chaperoned of course i by a watchful mother did its work the ' duke fell madly m love nnd confessing , that he was the duke of abruzzi laid his j royal hand and heart at miss el ns feet i startled and heart free miss elkins re fused him although determined m views | miss elkins had the courage to refuse a real live duke and returned to america and her cloved horses and her outdoor life meet again m washington soon the jamestown exposition opened and the duke came to this country as italy's official representative he made straight for washington and there at i fashionable box party m the national the ater the acquaintance was renewed it is said that failing still to win her lit sailed away with the partial promise of au affirmative answer after six months had elapsej two weeks ago the certainty of an en gagement succeeded the suspicion postmaster general and mrs meyer en tertained at luncheon to-day m honor of the duke d'abrnzzi and miss katherlne elkins his fiancee to-night senator and mrs elkins gave a large dinner of thirty covers to the duke policeman races train and saves a man's life patrolman john stimson of the south Chicago station snatched from death last uight a man who had fallen uneons duns on the tracks of the Illinois central hail road at eighty-seventh street stimson was on his way to report for duty he beard a groan and noticed m the dark wliat seemed to be the figure of a human being the headlight of a locomotive was iv sight there was little time for thought it was a race of a man against steam power stimson won by a margin of a few seconds and dragged the man from the track as the train ilew past stimson was almost exhausted leorge gallas btog erie avenue was the man he saved he had a fractured skull leader of the investigators and two officials who are under scrutiny rev riortoh culver.hartzell 72 horses perish in 70,000 blaze j halsted livery stable employe is missing and may have been burned also sevcuiv-two horses were er emnfed early this morning m a are that destroyed the large livery stables of edward flckles 5613 and 5613 sooth ilalsicj street twenty-live light wagons and buggies twenty-four heavy carriages and four hearses were burn the loss was placed by mr pickles at 70,000 the arc started from unknown cause m the hayloft oa'the third door of the build ing the horses were on the second lloor and when the fire was discovered it was impossible to get to them au employe whose name is not known was m the habit of sleeping m the loft he has not been seen since early m the evening and it is not known whether he was m tin 1 loft at the time of the fire and has been burned to death or not police hunt swindler who poses as priest the police arc hunting a man who for ttvo mouths has been swindling hundreds of poor families in ihe tthctto out of hnndretls of dollars he represented him self as l!ev father l'rechanl of the sacred heart roman catholic church â€¢>'â€¢> west nineteenth street and told his victims he was bellthg a bible on the install exit plan the proceeds going to the church as a hist payment he accepted anything from a dime to a dollar and some of the families purchased a bible outright paying aim $& father prechnnl was not at the sacred heart parsonage last night when asked regarding the complaint made to the police an attendant said that it was the tirst ti'.at he had heard nhout it he said that he thought thai the man was a fraud arrest banker for robbing elks lodge frank w lyle is accused of 1,447 shortage and can't find bond frank y lyle president of the city hank of dowajriac mich was placed mnler arrest at that city last night charged with embezzling 1,447 from dowagiao lodge no 80 b i 0 elks lyle was arrested m the act of boarding a train for Chicago where he maintains a residence m magnolia avenue thi city uauk of dowagiac failed feb ruary 8 the total deposits of the hank swore 244,000 and notes signed by lyle were found to represent 133,000 of the assets when arrested lyle was taken before a justice of tlie peace who bound him over m the sum of 3,900 to await the action of the grand jury lyle was unable to furnish the requisite bond lyle wiio is said to have expended large sums of money m gay living m Chicago is living apart from his wife mrs lyle having been granted separate maintenance by the court some time ago lyle up to the time of the trouble with his wife was prominent socially wife hurled down stairs friday the 13th sues friday the thirteenth proved unlucky for mrs mabel l wentz for on that day her husband dr herbert wentz is de clared to have thrown her down a flight of stairs at 242 robey street severely in juring her and causing their separation yesterday she fltc d a bill m cue superior court asking that her husband be com pelled to make separate provision for her support they were married may 18 1907 last november the wife charges her hus band choked her and otherwise injured iter severely agents of ministers arrested city hall charges blackmail investigators betray clergymen and business men who engaged them to run down stories of graft m high places adminis tration worried keeps statements secret grand jury investigation to-day â– i r efore the grand jury to-day [~\ will be unfolded the amazing story of a gang of convict blackmailers that betrayed a group of the most influential and most respected ministers m Chicago who were engaged m a secret movement lo purify the community by exposing al leged evils of the present city admiu istration the details were revealed last night after the arrest of four men who were mysteriously held and questioned at the city hall police station while the men are charged m police | statements with having attempted to extort between 75,000 and 100,000 from mayor busse chief of police snippy alderman milton j foreman ' and captain william plunkett to with jhold alleged information it is clearly developed that they were deceiving the ministers and taking money from them under false representations led by the rev m c hartzell the rev morton culver hartzell pastor oi the south park avenue tffetnodist episcopal church will be one of the witnesses he was the minister who directly managed tho campaign for information which he i hoped would lead to the betterment of conditions and the revelation of ' protected crime behind him m the move was a committee of five other south side ministers who had given him full ruscretion to act among them are such famous clergymen as jenkin lloyd jones willard b thorpe and austen k de blois the prisoners are jacob r marooney 40 years old 311 west eighteenth street a former convict â€¢ james mullaney 45 years old a former convict harry schindler alias burton alias the swindler arrested at lawrence kan a former convict walter huxholt 24 years old a bank clerk tells police plans of pastors mr hartzell through the agency of the y m c a made the ac quaintance of burton or schindler who foisted upon mr hartzell ma rooney and mullaney professional blackmailers who at once began tac tics of double dealing which ended m the exposure of the ministers m ment and will probably defeat it mullaney is said to have given the police the information tha he had been engaged by the rev mr hartzell to obtain evidence against mayor busse and others marooney was the first to be arrested hoxholt is said to have been involved with the others m a conspiracy to steal from the clearing house a check alleged to have been signed by mayor busse which mullaney and marooney had represented to mr hartzell v,ih net essary as evidence the police say that marooney was arrested m the act of committing a burglary for the purpose of stealing a book which had been promised to mr hartzell also lor the purpose of showing written evidence of ihe alleged facts which the convicts had represented to the minister business men supply funds the money which was paid to these agents was subscribed by the min isters by the douglas neighborhood improvement club and by some of the business men of the stanton avenue police district who have been indig nantly attempting for months to rid that district of the evils countenanced and they believe aided by the police the ministers of the committee are the rev jenkin lloyd jones lincoln center the rev w p merrill sixth presbyterian church the rev w b thorpe south congregational church the rev c a briggs asbury methodist episcopal church the rev w c covert forty-first street presbyterian church mr hartzell because of the great amount of work he has done for the public was chosen for the task of directing the search for evidence which was made as the result of numerous stories of graft protected vice and gam bling which came to them posed as private detective marooney was the chief of the gang of men who through the agency of the v m o a became the investigators for the ministers nothing of his record was known until after he had been arrested he represented himself as the head of a private detective agency and produced the letter head of such an agency with his name appearing as superintendent mul laney he said was his partner mr hartzell first met burton through a y m c a worker named cleland who for eighteen months has been m charge of the department which seeks to uplift former criminals he recommended burton as trust worthy and sincere m efforts to reform and the ministers st ill believe that he remained true to his trust marooney as soon as he was introduced to mr hartzell demanded a money retainer he was given 50 for which be gave his receipt to mr hartzell written on the letter paper of the alleged agency the receipt was for money given for services rendered offers to bare mayor's life he imparted to mr hartzell many tales of alleged knowledge on liis part which incriminated various city administrators m criminal acts and of connivance with breaches of the law he offered to expose mayor busse m his private life and as an official and mr hartzell believed him k owing nothing of the man's past and of his criminal proclivities every day mullaney and marooney reported to mr hartzell and told of al continued on cth page 4th column ps^r h erally fair friday and saturday il'i jj \\ slowly rising temperature variable j Â¥' rq winds p a good opportunity for obtaining a position is open to competent workers m all lines by the use of the situation wanted columns of the examiner which entitles ihcm to the free services of the examiner employment exchange which has a record of over 17.000 placements through its various departments during the past year if yon are a competent worker m any line do not delay call ing at one of the offices of the exchange to tile your application 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Chicago examiner vol vi no 77 a m friday march 20 1908 12 pages price one cent gg^j&_g ] bryan dodges the sullivan issue in his speech clinches the burial of hatchet by declaring he has no enemies 10,000 hearthe admission nearly apologizing for his sur render nebraskan scores johnson's supporters aims shafts at editors entertained on 48th birthday he declares that advertis ing has helped him william j bryan last uight ratified the bargain he made | tuesday with roger c sulli van he tacitly admitted his sur render to the democratic national com mitteeman the admission was made before 10 000 people who gathered to hear his big speech at the seventh regiment armory and m that throng there were very few who did not understand that mr bryan had stopped his right on sullivan m order to get instructed flelegates from Illinois to the denver convention the proof the sullivan men required mr bryan to make that he would keep his part of the peace compact made tuesday , was that he should owb his attacks upon his ancient foe and that was the exact ' proof he gave though he talked what he â– ailed personal polities for ten minutes at the beginning of his speech there was not one word m what he said that could be ronslrued to have a harsh meaning to mr sullivan's ear sullivan men satisfied there were scores of sullivan's ardent supporters m the crowd they all agreed when mr bryan had finished that he had made good upon what they understood the peace pact to be what mr bryan did m talking personal politics was to undertake in a mild way to justify his action m coming to sullivan's terms if what he said should be considered m its best light if the worst construction should be put upon his language it might almost be c.-.llei an apology for past un compromising utterances concerning the democratic state boss what gave especial point to the mildness or even the brotherliuess of his attitude toward sullivan was his direct and vigor ous attack upon certain eastern newspapers that have been discouraging his ambition and urging the nomination of governor johnson of minnesota toward the editors of those papers he used the strong and bitter language ho once was m the habit of using toward suliivan which went to show he had not lost his vocabulary and ; that his power or delivery had not grown weak the following is what he said of personal politics is ready to serve party ' i do not know what the denver eon ten lion may do but i know it ought to do bat the democrats of the nation ask it to do i have never assumed to decide that i am the most available man for the residential nomination m the nation all ) can say is that after all i have received from he part il has a right to command roe whenever it thinks i can serve it i believe that it is democratic to say that all the power the convention will have is derived from the people within the party all i have ever suggested is that the voters of the party and not the bosses should de lermine what the platform shall be and who the candidate shall be i respect the opinion of each individual of the party i respect that opinion no less if the individual happens to be the editor of a newspaper i even have some re - spect fc i the opinion of editors who wn'.e wiiat some one else tells them to wrilc but 1 insist that an editor or au owner of n newspaper is no more thau an individual thinks editors shouldn't coerce if an editor expresses an opinion it docs not give that opinion any more force because it is expressed n type an editor &Â«* " e riÂ»m to coerce public opinion th:u has the humblest private m the ranks of the paily it is rfj n t that editors should propose but the rank and tile must dispose l have refused so tar as i am con cerned to agree that the democratic presi dential candidate shall be made m the back olik-r of a few newspapers the editor who says that one man cannot be elected this year and that another can furnishes no bond to make good these men who are lolling us now what the party must do to be saved tire the s;:me who saved us o completely four years ago i insist that this year ihe rank and hie of the demo cratic parly shall say what the platform shall ik and who the standard-bearer shall be next mr bryan came to what might be bryanisks from mis armory talk m Chicago last night i have never assumed to de cide that i am the most available man m the nation for the nomination the voters o the party and not the bosses should determine who the candidate shall be i have refused to agree that the candidate should be made m the back offices of a few newspapers it is democratic to instruct delegates to the denver conven tion and to select men to carry out the instructions who want them carried out i have never had a personal difference with a democrat so far as i know i have not a per sonal enemy m the united states i have never asked a man i supported what he thought of me that did not matter if i have wronged any one i did it unintentionally and i will apologize if convinced i have wronged him william j v bryak at the sev enth regiment armory last night editor of fashionable new york society paper held on fraud charge franklin lawrence publisher of so ciety accused of defrauding so licitor of 1,000 given as security new york march 19 franklin law rence editor of society a weekly devoted to the doings of fashionable folk in which many women prominent in the four hun dred are stockholders wag locked up to night charged with obtaining si 000 by fraud among those who are reported to have purchased stock in the magazine at sioo a share are mrs stuyvesant fish mrs paul m morton mrs clnrence h mackay mrs theodore staonts and miss dollle lynch of lakewood the plan adopted by lawrence accord ing to the story told to-night was to send a solicitor to the home or society hostesses before a function of any kind and ex plain that the paper desired to treat it in accordance with the wishes of those in terested then a few shares of stock would be sold mrs shonts shortly before the marriage of her daughter to the due de chaulnes purchased two shares at 100 each the lakewood section of society contained a tery beautiful portrait of miss shonts on its first page the arrest was made on the complaint of harry b harris who was engaged in october as an advertising solicitor and put up a cash security of 1,000 he says he afterward worked ou commission to increase the circulatiou and says he ob tained only 17.50 and was unable to get any more money or recover his 1,(k)0 lawrence was also charged with violating the penal code m connection with rnnniug a corporation rockefeller dodges carnegie's challenge maybe i'll play him again is the 3est he will say augusta ga march 19-.lohn d rockefeller has so far treated with silence andrew carnegie's open challenge to play another game of golf and at the same time bury the hatchet mr uockcfcllcr knows w4iat mr carnegie has had to say he has read the statement from washington m the public prints but he is religiously mum as to iiis intentions the only state ment he has made being mr carnegie plays a good game of golf asked if he would invite mr carnegie to paly a game if he should have an opportunity to do so mr itockefeller said maybe and then he returned vigorously to a game be was plaviug with himself on the country ciub links n y democrats refuse to indorse w j bryan xew york march 19 the democratic st.iie committee m a meeting to-day m the bote victoria directed that an iinin btructed delegation from this state bo sent to the national convention m denver next juiy it also set the date for the state convention m which the delegates will be selected as april 11 and designated carnegie hail as the convention place all the bryan courage seemed to have faded when tin 1 meeting was called to order and only the feeble voice of committeeman charles p williams of lyons was raised m behalf of the nebraska king's wrath stops abruzzi-elkins announcement italy's ruler opposes marriage of truant duke to an american girl love not money match suitor will forfeit court posi tion by wedding says member of embassy washi ngtox march 19 the delay m announcing the engagement of miss kath erine elkins and the duke of abrnzzl is ! entirely due to the violent opposition of the king of italy cousin of the duke this fact became known from a member | of the italian embassy to-night it was ' said that the duke although on leave of absence from his vessel practically is a j truant as he came here m opposition to > the wishes of the king it is declared that senator and mrs elkins the dukej and ail others regard the marriage highly ' but there is said to be bitter disapproval | from italy each day sees a luncheon and each night a dinner where the health of the young couple is toasted but no formal announce ment of the engagement is forthcoming the reason for this according to the au thority quoted before is the violent antag onism of the king of italy and the hope that he may be won over duke not fortune hunter that the duke is seeking money is per i fectly absurd he is very wealthy in his j own right and if he does marry katherlne ! elkins it will be for love not for money ! the duke will have absolutely no post j tion in the italian court there is not ! much truth in the story that the king ! will confer an order of nobility ou senator elkins and thus elevate his daughter to the peerage kings are not bestowing titles on citizens of republics they have not enough titles to go round among their own loyal subjects the romantic cud of the story is the hard fight the duke has made for miss elkins hand he has followed her from continent to continent braved the dls pleasure of his king it is a real romance and not at al like other international matches have been they met on auto tour vbat is said to be the real story of the romance is this while m turin several summers ago automobiling iucognito to which sport the duke is passionately devoted he was in troduced to the elkins party who were j touring italy m an automobile the at | traction between the duke and miss elkins was immediate and all the more surpris ing to their friends because both had heretofore eschewed the society of the other sex but a glorious idle rambling summer m sunny italy long spins m the : moonlight adequately chaperoned of course i by a watchful mother did its work the ' duke fell madly m love nnd confessing , that he was the duke of abruzzi laid his j royal hand and heart at miss el ns feet i startled and heart free miss elkins re fused him although determined m views | miss elkins had the courage to refuse a real live duke and returned to america and her cloved horses and her outdoor life meet again m washington soon the jamestown exposition opened and the duke came to this country as italy's official representative he made straight for washington and there at i fashionable box party m the national the ater the acquaintance was renewed it is said that failing still to win her lit sailed away with the partial promise of au affirmative answer after six months had elapsej two weeks ago the certainty of an en gagement succeeded the suspicion postmaster general and mrs meyer en tertained at luncheon to-day m honor of the duke d'abrnzzi and miss katherlne elkins his fiancee to-night senator and mrs elkins gave a large dinner of thirty covers to the duke policeman races train and saves a man's life patrolman john stimson of the south Chicago station snatched from death last uight a man who had fallen uneons duns on the tracks of the Illinois central hail road at eighty-seventh street stimson was on his way to report for duty he beard a groan and noticed m the dark wliat seemed to be the figure of a human being the headlight of a locomotive was iv sight there was little time for thought it was a race of a man against steam power stimson won by a margin of a few seconds and dragged the man from the track as the train ilew past stimson was almost exhausted leorge gallas btog erie avenue was the man he saved he had a fractured skull leader of the investigators and two officials who are under scrutiny rev riortoh culver.hartzell 72 horses perish in 70,000 blaze j halsted livery stable employe is missing and may have been burned also sevcuiv-two horses were er emnfed early this morning m a are that destroyed the large livery stables of edward flckles 5613 and 5613 sooth ilalsicj street twenty-live light wagons and buggies twenty-four heavy carriages and four hearses were burn the loss was placed by mr pickles at 70,000 the arc started from unknown cause m the hayloft oa'the third door of the build ing the horses were on the second lloor and when the fire was discovered it was impossible to get to them au employe whose name is not known was m the habit of sleeping m the loft he has not been seen since early m the evening and it is not known whether he was m tin 1 loft at the time of the fire and has been burned to death or not police hunt swindler who poses as priest the police arc hunting a man who for ttvo mouths has been swindling hundreds of poor families in ihe tthctto out of hnndretls of dollars he represented him self as l!ev father l'rechanl of the sacred heart roman catholic church â€¢>'â€¢> west nineteenth street and told his victims he was bellthg a bible on the install exit plan the proceeds going to the church as a hist payment he accepted anything from a dime to a dollar and some of the families purchased a bible outright paying aim $& father prechnnl was not at the sacred heart parsonage last night when asked regarding the complaint made to the police an attendant said that it was the tirst ti'.at he had heard nhout it he said that he thought thai the man was a fraud arrest banker for robbing elks lodge frank w lyle is accused of 1,447 shortage and can't find bond frank y lyle president of the city hank of dowajriac mich was placed mnler arrest at that city last night charged with embezzling 1,447 from dowagiao lodge no 80 b i 0 elks lyle was arrested m the act of boarding a train for Chicago where he maintains a residence m magnolia avenue thi city uauk of dowagiac failed feb ruary 8 the total deposits of the hank swore 244,000 and notes signed by lyle were found to represent 133,000 of the assets when arrested lyle was taken before a justice of tlie peace who bound him over m the sum of 3,900 to await the action of the grand jury lyle was unable to furnish the requisite bond lyle wiio is said to have expended large sums of money m gay living m Chicago is living apart from his wife mrs lyle having been granted separate maintenance by the court some time ago lyle up to the time of the trouble with his wife was prominent socially wife hurled down stairs friday the 13th sues friday the thirteenth proved unlucky for mrs mabel l wentz for on that day her husband dr herbert wentz is de clared to have thrown her down a flight of stairs at 242 robey street severely in juring her and causing their separation yesterday she fltc d a bill m cue superior court asking that her husband be com pelled to make separate provision for her support they were married may 18 1907 last november the wife charges her hus band choked her and otherwise injured iter severely agents of ministers arrested city hall charges blackmail investigators betray clergymen and business men who engaged them to run down stories of graft m high places adminis tration worried keeps statements secret grand jury investigation to-day â– i r efore the grand jury to-day [~\ will be unfolded the amazing story of a gang of convict blackmailers that betrayed a group of the most influential and most respected ministers m Chicago who were engaged m a secret movement lo purify the community by exposing al leged evils of the present city admiu istration the details were revealed last night after the arrest of four men who were mysteriously held and questioned at the city hall police station while the men are charged m police | statements with having attempted to extort between 75,000 and 100,000 from mayor busse chief of police snippy alderman milton j foreman ' and captain william plunkett to with jhold alleged information it is clearly developed that they were deceiving the ministers and taking money from them under false representations led by the rev m c hartzell the rev morton culver hartzell pastor oi the south park avenue tffetnodist episcopal church will be one of the witnesses he was the minister who directly managed tho campaign for information which he i hoped would lead to the betterment of conditions and the revelation of ' protected crime behind him m the move was a committee of five other south side ministers who had given him full ruscretion to act among them are such famous clergymen as jenkin lloyd jones willard b thorpe and austen k de blois the prisoners are jacob r marooney 40 years old 311 west eighteenth street a former convict â€¢ james mullaney 45 years old a former convict harry schindler alias burton alias the swindler arrested at lawrence kan a former convict walter huxholt 24 years old a bank clerk tells police plans of pastors mr hartzell through the agency of the y m c a made the ac quaintance of burton or schindler who foisted upon mr hartzell ma rooney and mullaney professional blackmailers who at once began tac tics of double dealing which ended m the exposure of the ministers m ment and will probably defeat it mullaney is said to have given the police the information tha he had been engaged by the rev mr hartzell to obtain evidence against mayor busse and others marooney was the first to be arrested hoxholt is said to have been involved with the others m a conspiracy to steal from the clearing house a check alleged to have been signed by mayor busse which mullaney and marooney had represented to mr hartzell v,ih net essary as evidence the police say that marooney was arrested m the act of committing a burglary for the purpose of stealing a book which had been promised to mr hartzell also lor the purpose of showing written evidence of ihe alleged facts which the convicts had represented to the minister business men supply funds the money which was paid to these agents was subscribed by the min isters by the douglas neighborhood improvement club and by some of the business men of the stanton avenue police district who have been indig nantly attempting for months to rid that district of the evils countenanced and they believe aided by the police the ministers of the committee are the rev jenkin lloyd jones lincoln center the rev w p merrill sixth presbyterian church the rev w b thorpe south congregational church the rev c a briggs asbury methodist episcopal church the rev w c covert forty-first street presbyterian church mr hartzell because of the great amount of work he has done for the public was chosen for the task of directing the search for evidence which was made as the result of numerous stories of graft protected vice and gam bling which came to them posed as private detective marooney was the chief of the gang of men who through the agency of the v m o a became the investigators for the ministers nothing of his record was known until after he had been arrested he represented himself as the head of a private detective agency and produced the letter head of such an agency with his name appearing as superintendent mul laney he said was his partner mr hartzell first met burton through a y m c a worker named cleland who for eighteen months has been m charge of the department which seeks to uplift former criminals he recommended burton as trust worthy and sincere m efforts to reform and the ministers st ill believe that he remained true to his trust marooney as soon as he was introduced to mr hartzell demanded a money retainer he was given 50 for which be gave his receipt to mr hartzell written on the letter paper of the alleged agency the receipt was for money given for services rendered offers to bare mayor's life he imparted to mr hartzell many tales of alleged knowledge on liis part which incriminated various city administrators m criminal acts and of connivance with breaches of the law he offered to expose mayor busse m his private life and as an official and mr hartzell believed him k owing nothing of the man's past and of his criminal proclivities every day mullaney and marooney reported to mr hartzell and told of al continued on cth page 4th column ps^r h erally fair friday and saturday il'i jj \\ slowly rising temperature variable j Â¥' rq winds p a good opportunity for obtaining a position is open to competent workers m all lines by the use of the situation wanted columns of the examiner which entitles ihcm to the free services of the examiner employment exchange which has a record of over 17.000 placements through its various departments during the past year if yon are a competent worker m any line do not delay call ing at one of the offices of the exchange to tile your application 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